CPR POLICY IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

• Current Model Rules of Professional Conduct

• Current State Rules of Professional Conduct

Recent Changes to the Model Rules

• Criminal Justice Section changes to Rule 3.8.

• Standing Committee on Client Protection change to Rule 5.5 Comment(Report to House of Delegates)

• Task Force on Corporate Responsibility Amendments to Rules 1.6 and 1.13 (scroll down for Reports 119A and B)

• Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility changes to Rules 7.2 and 7.5

• Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice changes to Rules 5.5 and 8.5

Ethics 2000

• Ethics 2000 homepage

• Redlined Model Rules, showing Ethics 2000 changes

• Reporter's Explanation Memos for Ethics 2000 proposals

State Review of Model Rules

• Ethics 2000 Review Status Chart, including status of review and links to committee reports

• Charts comparing state rules as adopted to Model Rules

• Charts comparing individual rules as adopted or proposed to Model Rules

• State Review Contact List

Ethics 2000 Articles

• "The Revised ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Summary of the Work of Ethics 2000" by Margaret Colgate Love

• "Form over Federalism: The Case for Consistency in State Ethics Rules Formats" by Robert A. Creamer